From: ‘Rudra Mac Chumaill’ ;forasnai@hotmail.com
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Cc: tfnoonan@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Roman Fort [...ConFere...]
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From: Shae... Subject:Re: Roman Fort
Shea,
Thank you for this posting (as well as your others that i very much
enjoy...); I wonder if you could forward the date so that I can see if Alta
Vista search engine can call forth the piece (the ‘Irish Times’ is online as
etext). [Thank You Again...]
The thought of an Irish ‘Alexandria’ makes a great deal of sense and fits a
few ‘pieces of the puzzle’ into an aha! perspective for me--who has always
been sceptical, after reading the accounts of some crazed broad-shouldered,
narrow-waisted, built-for-speed Celt Warrior standing all alone on that
prominatory, the blade of his hand, pressed to forehead, as *moonlight blue* as
his great sword as he surveys the line of ships on the horizon, a chill wind
whipping those bleached strands of his tawny mane about, stinging his eyes, his
bared red-ochre-painted chest not feeling a thing, breath settled into rythmic
swelling of olde, as he intones, *Well, let's have at it; I don't have all day,
you know...*;after tales like that one, told, too, by my grandfather to me as a
wee one then *forgotten* in the ‘mosaic of maturation,’ well, I've had my
‘reasonable doubts’ that anyone ever managed to get the Celts to ‘bow down’...
rudra/tom
laboremus,
--When Mara the Malign, the false idol of craving and desire for death, tempts
Buddha in the ‘visit to Brahma’ parable, Buddha hears out the argument,
buzzing like a fly in his ear, that he is not ‘personally’ of God and ‘will
certainly not discover another higher liberation, try as you will.’
To the Malign One the Buddha speaks thus: Abandon your Hope...Brahma rescues
the sutra with which Mara had weaved diabolical intrigue, and repeats:
‘I, O Worthy One,[Buddha, indeed] hold as eternal that which is truly eternal,
as persistent, as perennial, as indissoluble, as immutable that which is truly so...’
Buddha, through ‘grace,’ is thus granted by heaven that extraordinary strength
beyond knowledge, concept or words, *viraya*, a ‘superior and powerful energy,’
with regards to ordinary mortal abilities, a supreme quality working the
miracle of ‘liberation of the will by means of the will.’
--‘If there is a lonesome tall pine tree standing, the forest has not ended...’
--’General rule that speaker has right to tailor speech is not restricted to
press, but rather, is enjoyed by business corporations generally and by ordinary
people engaged in unsophisticated expression as well as by professional publishers...
[Dissent] boils down to the choice of a speaker not to propound a particular
point of view...’
Rudra Mac Chumaill, Namgyal Monastery
Dharamsala, India
*Samyutta-nikaya*, (an ancient Pali:Vedic text), vol's 1.4,5
*Hurley v, Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of
Boston*
(1995) 115 S. Ct. 2338
